{"id":82794,"date":"2025-06-01T08:51:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T07:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=82794"},"modified":"2025-06-01T08:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T07:51:25","slug":"does-starmer-want-a-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/06\/01\/does-starmer-want-a-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Starmer want a war?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starmer appears to be telling anyone who will listen this morning that we should be, and maybe are, preparing for war.<\/p>\n<p>War is always the resort of the power hungry charlatan seeking to distract attention from the failure of their domestic agenda, very occasional exceptions, that prove the point, apart.<\/p>\n<p>So, who is Starmer going to war with, and why?<\/p>\n<p>What is the reasoning?<\/p>\n<p>What would the end game be? You have to know in advance.<\/p>\n<p>And, what would justify the sacrifice?<\/p>\n<p>As far as I can work out, Starmer is as clueless in these things as anything else. So, what right has he got to talk about war, preparedness for it, or anything that might sacrifice the lives of others in an attempt to save his political career, almost certainly in vain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starmer appears to be telling anyone who will listen this morning that we should be, and maybe are, preparing for war. War is always the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/06\/01\/does-starmer-want-a-war\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,14,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-corruption","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82795,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82794\/revisions\/82795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}